The Meccg-forum disappeared (it has been a couple of weeks now) and with it the entire hazard/resource deck taxonomy and collection of decks. An invaluable resource for us newcomers to the game.

Does anybody know if there is any other source for it? Or does someone sit on a wealth of deck listing?

I would love to see more people post their own decks in this forum. Sorry to hear that information is lost. Although I have no direct ties to meccg.net, I will inquire to see if I can find some information on if that forum will be resurrected.

Yeah, as a newbie, I would love to see more common deck lists and deck techs especially for the hero faction.

Can you give me more info on what you are looking for specifically please? You want Hero alignment. Can they contain a bunch of rares? Or are you looking for Common/Uncommon only? Or what? Tournament competitive? Or just casual fun?

sure, I'll be happy to. I'm looking for 5 decks in total, one for each wizard, mostly competitive and preferably with different strategies (one ring dunk, coastal, dwarf hoard/king under the mountain?).

I probably have all rares from TW and TD at least once (3x Mouth of Sauron, 2x Assassin, all Ringwraiths, 3x Aduphanel, 2x Khamul) staple commons (at least 12x) and uncommons (at least 9x), also some of the "competitive" commons and uncommons from later sets (at least 6x each: in search of the ent wives, which might be lies, promptings of wisdom, neither ancient nor so potent, gnaw with words, power built by waiting, little snuffler, two or three tribes present, "the men enhancement", exhalation of decay, full of froth and rage,...). Regarding the characters, I have the rare ones at least once and multiple copies of the fixed, common and uncommon ones. Basically most of the commons/uncommons except from the Balrog set.

The deck taxonomy on MECCG.net was nice because it provided a simple index of common resource and hazard deck builds with links to examples of the different designs. I note that this forum itself contains a large number of deck designs and descriptions, but they're spread out all over the place. A new taxonomy could be built simply by organizing these designs into a coherent, one-stop-shop index system.

For example, it would be useful for somebody getting into the game to be able to look up deck examples by theme or general strategy. Want to build a Hobbit deck? Here's some examples. Want to build a deck around dwarves mining for treasure? Here's some examples. Want to build a coastal faction-gathering deck? Here you go!

Another option would be decks designed with different levels of collections in mind. So, decks with a low frequency of rare cards, or decks that include only cards in MetW and The Dragons, etc.

You can also imagine looking up decks by avatar. So, for example, you're intrigued by Fallen Gandalf, but need some help figuring out how to make him work. The index could point you to different Fallen Gandalf decks.

On the hazard side, same idea. Want an undead, dragon/drake, Nazgul attack, detainment, corruption, or whatever other style of deck? Here's some examples. Want to know hazard strategies against minion squatters or an Indy Jones deck? Here's some examples.

And so on. An index like this could make the game a lot more accessible, I think.

The other amazing thing that I would like to see is a deck-building tool that is as easy and intuitive as what we now have for the LotR LCG: http://ringsdb.com/. Take a look at that and tell me it wouldn't be awesome to have something similar for MECCG!